• Preparing for a Lifetime:  It’s Everyone’s Responsibility initiative. Oklahoma State Dept of Health
• Before, Between and Beyond Pregnancy
• Healthy People 2020 - Maternal Child Health
• Preconception Care and Health Care

• Tulsa World - Healthy Women, Healthy Babies

Su An Arnn Phipps R.N., Ph.D.
Program Director
(918) 660-3955
Su-Phipps@ouhsc.edu

Fran Trujillo, RN
(918) 660-3912
Francisca-Trujillo@ouhsc.edu

Linda Ngorima
(918) 660-3936
Linda-Ngirmora@ouhsc.edu

Healthy Women, Healthy Futures

The goal of Healthy Women, Healthy Futures is to improve the physical, emotional, social, dental, and vision health of non-pregnant women in poverty to reduce premature births and infant mortality.

What We Do

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HWHF & Partners provide:

• Fun health promotion education taught by RNs on-site at selected early childhood centers.
• No or low cost on-going basic health care at the centers’ school based clinics
• An individualized health plan, developed with the women,  to  prevent or manage chronic illnesses such  as high blood pressure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, depression and asthma
• Support and assistance in women’s interconceptional health by a Health Navigator (case manager).
• No cost vision exams and glasses, if needed
• Medicines at no cost
• Dental care
• Counseling for mental health issues
• RNs and Health Navigators act as wellness  coaches to support women with their health plans

Program Offerings

Our program offers the following classes:

• Benefits of exercise
• Cardiovascular wellness
• Diabetes prevention
• Nutrition
• Healthy shopping and cooking
• Pregnancy plan development
• Yoga
• Stress reduction
• Zumba
• and many more…

Who Can Become a Participant?

• Women with a child enrolled in a selected Early Childhood Education Center, and ….
• Who are able to become pregnant, but are not currently pregnant.

What if the participant becomes pregnant?

The woman may remain in the program. She will be referred to OU OB/GYN Midwifery or OU Family Medicine if she doesn’t have her own physician.

How long may the participant be able to stay in the program?

Our intent is to educate and provide services to participants for 2 years, even when the child no longer attends an Early Childhood Education Program.

 

HEALTHY WOMEN, HEALTHY FUTURES
University of Oklahoma College of Nursing
4502 E. 41st. St., Tulsa, OK 74135
(918) 660-3955

Healthy Women, Healthy Futures, a program of the OU College of Nursing, is generously supported by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma.